It's a two-year residential life skills and vocational training program for men and women with a history of criminal behavior, drug addiction, and homelessness.

They're taught to live a life of integrity, accountability and honesty.

"Trying to affect real change in their lives and they come back to move us on this very momentous occasion and it`s just an incredible story," Captain Britt Smith with the Pleasant Grove Police Department said.

"It actually fills my soul," Austin Nicholas said. "Service is something that I`ve never really done in my life and being able to give back to my community fills my soul, it makes me feel so good to be able to give something back without expecting anything in return."

The old police department building will be re-purposed and used by the Community Development Department.